Netanyahu shares NEW DETAILS on attempted hijacking: 'RADICAL INDOCTRINATION'

E. PLANE LANDED AND GREETING THOSE. PASSENGER SAYS WHEN THEY CAME. OUT. MR. PRIME MINISTER, THANK YOU. FOR JOINING US TODAY. >> PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU. >> Brian: THE THING THAT COMES. TO MIND AS YOU HAVE HEARD THE. ACCOUNT AND READ REPORTS WE. PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO. WHAT DO YOU THINK PROMPTED THIS. ATTACK? >> THIS IS BEING INVESTIGATED. NOW AND THE ATTACKER, COPILOT.

WHO ATTACKED THE CAPTAIN IS NOW. BEING INTERROGATED. HERE IS WHAT WE DO KNOW. WE KNOW THAT HE UNDER WENT. ISLAMIST RADICAL INDOCTRINATION. THAT APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING. WE'RE GATHERING FROM. INFORMATION, HIS PERSONAL. INFORMATION. WE KNOW THAT AFTER HE WAS. SUBDUED, THIS GUY WAS THE. ISRAELI PLUMBER, THIS HERO, WHO. BROKE INTO THE COCKPIT AND YANKS.

HIM AWAY FROM THE INSTRUMENTS. HE WAS NOT IN THE CAPTAIN SEAT. OR HIS SEAT, HE WAS IN THE. CENTER TRYING TO JAM THE. INSTRUMENT. HE YANK SAYS HIM AWAY, THEY. SUBDUE HIM AND SUBDUED HIM --. JUST UNDERSTAND THIS, THEY HAD. TO TIE HIS HANDS. THEY USED THE CORD OF EARPHONE. IN THE COCKPIT, TALK ABOUT. IMPROVIZATION. THEY GOT PLASTIC WHATEVER YOU. CALL, CUFFS THEY HAVE.

>> Brian: TIES. >> HE'S LYING THERE NOW, THIS. ATTACKER HE CALL SAYS OUT TO THE. AIR CREW, KILL ME. KILL ME. IT IS CLEAR HE WAS SUICIDAL, THAT IS NOT A QUESTION. HE WAS GOING TO DOWN THAT PLANE. IT IS NOT CLEAR, IT IS LIKELY HE. WAS GOING TO DOWN THE PLANE WITH. ALL THE PASSENGERS IN THERE. IF YOU COUPLE THAT WITH WHAT YOU. TOLD YOU ABOUT ISLAMIST TENDENCY.

RADICALIZATION FOUND IN HIS. BACKGROUND, THAT IS A PRETTY. GOOD CLUE. I DON'T MAKE FINAL CONCLUSIONS. YET, THAT IS THE INDICATION WE. HAVE NOW. LOOKS LIKE HE WAS BRINGING THAT. PLANE DOWN WITH THE PASSENGER. SAYS. >> Lawrence: I WANT TO SLOW YOU. DOWN A BIT ON WHAT HE WAS SAYING. ONCE HE GOT CAPTURED. CAN YOU TAKE US BEFORE HE GOT.

CAPTURED, WHAT DID HE SAY? >> I DON'T KNOW THAT. >> Lawrence: AS HE'S TRYING TO. TAKE OVER THE PLANE, DOES HE SAY. ANYTHING TO THE PASSENGERS OR. SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HIS ISLAM. TIES? >> NO, NONE OF THAT, BECAUSE. WHAT THE PASSENGER HERO WHO. BROKE IN, HE HEARD THAT. PASSENGERS NEXT TO THE COCKPIT. WERE SAYING THERE IS SCREAMING. GOING ON. THERE IS A STABBING GOING ON. THERE WAS THE INDIAN PILOTS WHO.

WAS STABBED WAS SCREAMING HIS. HEAD OFF PROBABLY, THEY HEARD. THAT. THIS HERO RUSHED OVER, WANTED TO. GET INTO THE COCKPIT, THE PLANE. WAS TAKING A DIVE, HE WAS. KNOCKED DOWN. HE GOT HIS BEARING, BROKE INTO. THE COCKPIT, YANKED THE. ATTACKER, OVERCAME HIM, TOOK. OVER THE STICK. THE PILOT STICK AND PUSHED BACK. HE -- I SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW.

HOW TO DO THAT? I WATCH AIR DISASTER FILMS, I. TOLD THAT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. YESTERDAY, HE WAS AMAZED BECAUSE. WE ALL SEE THESE FILM SAYS. TO BE IN THIS THING, THIS IS. HOLLYWOOD ON STEROIDS, YOU CAN'T. MAKE THIS UP. YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT HAPPENED IN. REAL LIFE BUT IT DID. WHAT TRANSPIRED AND FORGIVE ME. TELLING IT, THIS IS SO. IMPORTANT, THESE ARE ORDINARY. CIVILIANS. ISRAELI CITIZENS WHO BECAME.

HEROES, SUPER HEROES. ONE GUY OVERCAME THE ATTACKER, THE OTHER HELPED TIE HIM UP. A DOCTOR CAME IN, HE'S A. DENTIST, TO TAKE CARE OF THE. PILOT. HE TOLD HIS WIFE, GO. BACK AND CALM THE PASSENGER. SAYS. SHE OVERCAME HER FEAR SHE WAS. GOING TO DIE AND CALMED THE. PASSENGERS. ANOTHER ONE GUARDED THE COCKPIT, NOBODY CAME IN. I SERVED IN A SPECIAL FORCES.

UNIT, I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES. WE'RE CALLED TO ACT UNDER. STRESS. THESE ARE SPECIAL FORCES. OFFICERS. THESE GUYS ARE REGULAR CIVILIANS. AND DID A JOB I'M NOT SURE MY. TEAM COULD HAVE DONE ANY BETTER. NOT SURE THEY COULD HAVE DONE. WHAT THEY DID, THEY ARE SUPER. HEROES AND SAVED THE DAY. >> Ainsley: EVERYONE HAS TO. SERVE IN THE MILITARY IN ISRAEL, THEY WERE NOT GOING TO LET IT GO. DOWN. IT IS INCREDIBLE. ESPECIALLY AFTER WE JUST.

REMEMBERED 9/11. THIS COULD HAVE GONE TERRIBLY. WRONG. THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT. STEPPED IN. IT IS AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE, TWO PILOTS WERE SITTING IN THE. BACK DEAD HEADING AND WENT TO. LAND THE PLANE. YOU CAN PUT ON AUTO PILOT, LANDING IS A DIFFERENT THING. HOW DID, IF YOU KNOW THERE IS A. PILOT AND YOU ARE HEADING TO. ISRAEL, I KNOW YOU ARE ALWAYS. WATCHING, CERTAIN PLANES CANNOT. LAND IN ISRAEL. CERTAIN COUNTRIES CANNOT LAND IN.

ISRAEL. HOW COULD THIS PILOT GET ONBOARD. A PLANE IF THEY KNEW HE WAS. RADICALIZED? DID THEY KNOW THAT? NOBODY KNEW? DO YOU DO INVESTIGATIONS TO MAKE. SURE PILOTS, DO YOU MAKE SURE. THERE ARE NO RADICALIZED OR. GOING FORWARD PILOTS FLYING INTO. ISRAEL? >> HE WAS AN OMANI NATIONAL AND. WE HAVE CONSTRAINT THAT SAY YOU. CAN'T HAVE PILOTS FROM COUNTRIES. THAT DON'T HAVE DIPLOMATIC.

RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. HE WAS ABLE TO GO THROUGH THAT. THERE WAS A LOOPHOLE THERE. HOW TO MAKE SURE WE SCREEN. PILOTS IN ADVANCE, THAT IS WHAT. WE DID WITH PILOTS WHO CAME TO. TAKE OUR PASSENGERS FROM SAUDI. ARABIA TO ISRAEL WE CHECKED. THEIR BACKCKGROUND. THERE WAS A LOOPHOLE HERE AND. WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THAT, AMONG. OTHER THING SAYS. WITH FULL COOPERATION OF THE.

U.N. EMIRATE GOVERNMENT. THIS IS SELECTION SEASON. THEREFORE I ASK ISRAELIS TO BE. ON SPECIAL ALERT. WE'RE GOING TO PROBABLY DRAW. CONCLUSIONS FROM THIS. INVESTIGATION AND TIGHTEN UP. SECURITY. WE ALWAYS TRY TO DO THAT, WE DO. A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF IT. >> Brian: A GREAT JOB.

MR. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, WE. DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT WEAPON, HOW DID HE GET A KNIFE ONBOARD. YOU TOLD SEAN HANNITY, IT MIGHT. HAVE BEEN THE AX STANDARD IN. CERTAIN AIRLINE IN CASE OF. EMERGENCY? >> I DON'T KNOW, I CAN'T TELL. YOU THAT. TWO POSSIBILITIES, ONE, HE DID. NOT GO THROUGH A METAL DETECTOR. NOT SURE PILOTS ALWAYS DO. HE'S PART OF THE AIR CREW, LET. HIM GO. HE COULD HAVE CARRIED AN AX,

KNIFE OR GOTTEN AN AX FROM. KWIMENT IN THE THAT MIGHT BE. STANDARD ON THIS AIRPLANE. WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT. I CAN'T DRAW CONCLUSIONS YET. IT IS S REALLY, IT LOOKS LIKE H. HAD BEEN RADICALIZED, I THINK. TOO EARLY TO SAY WHETHER HE HAD. A CONNECTION WITH IRAN OR ANYONE. ELSE, TOO EARLY TO SAY THAT. WE'LL BE ABLE TO SAY THAT VERY. DEFINITELY, FAIRLY DEFINITIVELY, NOT FAIRLY, WE WILL BE ABLE TO.

SAY DEFINITIVELY WITHIN A MATTER. OF DAYS. >> Lawrence: MR. PRIME MINISTER, TWO-PART QUESTION. WHO DO YOU THINK HELPED. RADICALIZE THIS GUY? WHAT ARE YOUR SUSPICIONS? I DON'T YOU CAN'T SAY. CONCLUSIVELY. AND OMAN, ARE THEY COOPERATING. WITH THE INVESTIGATION RIGHT. NOW? >> I DON'T KNOW, WE'RE NOT. CONDUCTING THE INVESTIGATION, WE. ARE CONDUCTING OBVIOUSLY ON HIS. BACKGROUND AND SO ON, IT IS TOO.

EARLY TO SAYS BUT WE ARE. COOPERATING CLEARLY WITH THE. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. WE WILL GET TO BOTTOM OF THINGS. VERY SOON. >> Lawrence: WHAT ABOUT OMAN? >> OMAN, I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING. DIRECTLY ABOUT THEM. THE LATE LEADER OF IRAN INVITED. ME A FEW YEARS AGO TO JOIN HIM, AN EKSZ TENSION, BEGINNING OF.

EXTENSION OF ABRAHAM ACCORD THAT. ME AND PRESIDENT TRUMP WORKED. ON. A MILLION ISRAELIS GOING TO. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO DUBAI. AND THIS FLIGHT WAS PART OF THAT. GREAT EXCHANGE OF TOURISM AND. WARM PEACE THAT WE HAVE. OMAN ACTUALLY THE LATE SOLTAN. INVITED ME, HE ASKED ME TO COME.

FOR OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC VISIT TO. OMAN AND WE DID, I DID WENT. THERE WITH MY WIFE. SHORTLY AFTER HE DIED AND I'M. SURE IF HE LIVED WE WOULD HAVE. HAD ANOTHER PARTNER IN THE. ABRAHAM ACCORDS. NEW REGIME IS STANDOFFISH, I. CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. YET. >> Ainsley: YOU MENTIONED. HEROES, WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE. THEM, THERE IS A LIST OF NAMES, THE HERO PLUMBER TOLD YOU. YESTERDAY, SO CUTE HE WAS.

SITTING WITH YOU, HE PULLED BACK. THE YOLK, HE SAID HE WATCHES. AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATION. THE E DENTIST, THIS GUY WAS. BLEEDING, HE STABILIZED HIM. HIS WIFE WAS IN THE BACK TELLING. EVERYONE TO CALM DOWN AND. EVERYONE GOING TO BE OKAY AND. OFF-DUTY PILOTS MADE IT POSSIBLE. FOR THE PLANE TO LAND. AS FAR AS THE PILOT STABBED, HOW.

IS HE DOING AND WHERE WERE IT IS. STAB WOUNDS? HOW CRITICAL IS HE? >> HE WAS STABBED IN THE HEAD. AND HIS ARM SPLIT IN TWO. THERE WAS A LOT OF BLOOD. THE PLUMBER, AS YOU CALL HIM, WAWAS COVERED IN HIS BLOOD. I TOLD HIS WIFE, PLEASE DO NOT. LAUNDER THIS, THIS STANDS AS A. TESTIMONY TO THE HEROISM OF YOUR. HUSBAND AND OF SO MANY ISRAELIS.

SO I MEAN, THEY ALL CAME IN AND. JUST DID THEIR THING WITH. TREMENDOUS RESOURCEFULNESS AND. COURAGE AND COOL-HEADEDNESS. THE DENTIST IS NOT WORKING ON. THE -- HE GAVE IMMEDIATE. TREATMENT TO THIS BRAVE INDIAN. PILOT WHO WAS ATTACKED BY THIS. OMANI PILOT.

HE SAYS, LISTEN, HOLD ON FOR A. SECOND AND RUSHES BACK TO HIS. WIFE, TELLS HER, HERE IS YOUR. JOB, I'M GOING BACK IN THERE, YOU TAKE CARE OF THE PASSENGERS. AND THAT IS THE WAY IT WORKED. INCREDIBLE TEAMWORK PREVENTED. ALONG WITH PILOTS WHO TOOK OVER, PLANE WITH A BROKEN RUDDER THAT. PLUNGED THOUSANDS OF FEET IN. SECONDS, THEY GOT CONTROL OVER. THE SITUATION. WE COULD BE SITTING TODAY IN A. 9/11 TRAGEDY WITH BODIES.

SCATTERED IN THE DESERT AND THEY. DIDN'T BECAUSE OF COURAGE OF. THESE PEOPLE. I THINK THEY'RE -- THEY TELL THE. WORLD YOU CAN'T FIGHT TERRORISM. THIS VIOLENCE, THIS MADNESS. ORDINARY PEOPLE PITCHING IN. >> Brian: MR. PRIME MINISTER, THIS IS NOT NEW TO YOU, YOU WERE. ON THE TEVI, WHEN YOUR B BROTHE. WAS KILLED AND YOU WERE SHOT 50. YEARS AGO.

DID THIS GIVE YOU FLASHBACKS? >> I WASN'T ON IT, I WAS A. CIVILIAN, MY BROTHER WHO HEADED. SPECIAL FORCES LED THE RESCUE. PARTY THAT RESCUED 103 ISRAELI. HOSTAGES FROM PALESTINIAN AND. GERMAN TERRORISTS IN UGANDA, HE. WAS THE SOLE CASUALTY. HE DIED LEADING HIS MEN RIGHT AT. THE TERRORISTS. I A FEW YEARS EARLIER WAS.

WOUNDED WHILE MY TEAM AND I. BOARDED, STORMED HIJACKED. BELGIAN AIRPLANE THAT LANDED IN. ISRAEL, PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS. SAID THEY WOULD BLOWUP THE PLANE. UNLESS WE RELEASED TERRORISTS. WE DRESSED UP IN WHITE OVERALLS. AND STORMED PLANE AND RESCUED. THE PASSENGERS. SO FOR ME, I'VE BEEN AROUND.

HIJACKED PLANES A LONG TIME. I MARVEL, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. WHEN YOU ARE OFFICER AND. COMMANDO TEAM AND YOU KNOW YOU. ARE GOING TO RISK YOUR LIFE BUT. YOU ORIENT YOURSELF WITH YOUR. MIND AND YOUR HEART ON THE. MISSION. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING. WITH THEIR FAMILIES, THERE WERE. 30 CHILDREN, 30 KIDS, SOME. BABIES, PLUNGING TO THEIR DEATHS. AND THESE HEROES JUST TOOK.

CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. TOOK CONTROL OF THEMSELVES AND. THEN SAVED THE DAY. I SALUTE THEM, THE WORLD SHOULD. SALUTE THEM. COURAGE OF THESE ISRAELIS --. >> Lawrence: MR. PRIME MINISTER, QUICKLY BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, IT. WAS REPORTED ISRAELI FIGHTER. JETS STARTED TO SCRAMBLE. THE PLANE WAS PLUNGING, HOW. CLOSE WERE YOU TO MAKING A TOUGH. DECISION IF THEY DID NOT TAKE. BACK THAT PLANE?

>> YOU KNOW, LAWRENCE, THIS IS. MAYBE THE TOUGHEST SITUATION. THAT WE CAN BE IN. I'VE BEEN IN FIVE OR SIX TIMES. WHERE UNIDENTIFIED PLANE, PASSENGER PLANE IS HEADING. TOWARD ISRAEL AND YOU HAVE NO. COMMUNICATION. AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION. AND I CAN SAY HAPPILY THAT SO. FAR WE'VE MADE THE RIGHT. DECISION. I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO DETAILS.

OF THIS, ALWAYS CONCERNED WITH. THAT AS I'M SURE YOU ARE, TOO, HAVING SUFFERED 9/11S, YOU DON'T. WANT REPETITION OF THAT. THAT IS KIND OF DECISION LEADERS. HOPE THEY NEVER HAVE TO MAKE. >> Brian: WE REALLY APPRECIATE. YOUR DECISION, THANK YOU FOR. EXPLAINING THIS STORY AND TELL. AMERICA WHAT IT WAS LIKE ON THAT. PLANE. THANK.